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The Best Attractions In Queimados

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Queimados is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 136,509 and its area is 77 km². The city is divided into 37 districts.
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The Best Attractions In Queimados

  • 2. Museum of Contemporary Art Niteroi
    The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum is situated in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is one of the city’s main landmarks. It was completed in 1996. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini, who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects, the MAC-Niterói is 16 meters high; its cupola has a diameter of 50 meters with three floors. The museum projects itself over Boa Viagem beach and also a neighborhood, the 817 square metres reflecting pool that surrounds the cylindrical base “like a flower,” in the words of Niemeyer.A wide access slope leads to a Hall of Expositions, which has a capacity for sixty people. Two doors lead to the viewing gallery, through which can be seen Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, and Sugarloaf Mountai...
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  • 6. Camboinhas Beach Niteroi
    Camboinhas is one of the 48 neighborhoods into which the city of Niterói, in Brazil, is divided. The name originated in a marine accident in the 1950s. In that decade, a ship called Camboinhas grounded on the beach. A Brazilian Navy corvette named Angostura was sent to save the ship, but grounded during her attempts to tow Camboinhas out of the beach. The Navy then abandoned their attempts to salvage the Camboinhas and concentrated all efforts on saving the Angostura, which they eventually succeeded in doing. Today, the remains of the hull of the Camboinhas can be seen on the beach, during low tide. The neighborhood has shores on both the Itaipu Lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean and was inhabited primarily by fishermen until 1978, when a company named Veplan started lotting the land for the r...
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